Basket-carrier.



S. B. LONG.

BASKET CARRIER.

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Patented Feb. 20; 1917.

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BASKET-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 27, 1916. Serial No. 122,565.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH BERTHA LONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burley, in the county of Cassia and State of Idaho, have invented new and useful Improvements in Basket-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved basket carrier especially adapted for suspending a clothes basket from a line and to enable the clothes basket to the line while taking out clothes from the basket and hanging them on the line to facilitate the labor of-hanging out clothes and avoid stooping and thetmanual carrying of the basket.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination, and arrangement of devices, hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a pair of carriers constructed in accordance with my invention and showing the same attached to a clothes basket and suspending the basket from a line.

Fig. 2 is a detail elevation of one of the carriers.

Fig. 3 is a to Fig. 2.

Fig. 4: is a detailed perspective view of the carrier at any desired point on the line.

My improved carrier comprises a hanger 1, which is provided at its upper end with an inverted U-shaped portion 2 in which similar view at right angles a peripherally grooved wheel 3 is mounted The grooved wheel is adapted on an axle 4. to engage and to travel on a line 5. At the lower end of the hanger is a cross bar 6 which is provided at its ends with fixed depending gripping jaws 7. A right angled opposite and spaced from each of the jaws 7 and has a threaded opening which is'engaged by a screw 9. Opposite each fixed jaw 7 is a movable clamping jaw 10 which is swivelly connected one of the screws as at 11. The jaws 10 may be moved toward or from the jaws '7 understood, to basket or other vessel 12 to be clamped between or released from the jaws of the carriers.-

be readily moved along 'of stooping or of to the inner end of To hold the carrier at any desired pointand prevent it from moving casually on the line, I provide a lock 13 which is pivotally mounted on the axle 4 for swinging movement concentrically of the wheel and which has a segmental shoe 14 which is exterio-rly toothed as at 15 and which may be arranged to bear on the line at either side of and partly under the wheel and thus prevent the carrier from running in either direction on a slack line.

When a pair of my improved carriers are thus attached to a clothes basket or other vessel and arranged on a clothes line,

they serve to suspend the basket or othervessel from the line and enable the same to be readily moved along the line to very greatly facilitate the taking out of clothes from the basket and hanging the same on the line. My carrier obviates the necessity manually carrying the clothes basket when hanging out clothes and hence very greatly reduces the labor and.

also greatly expedites the same.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates, and while I have described the principles of operation of the device together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desiredas are within the scope of the claim appended hereto.

described my'invention, what I aving claim 1s:

A carrier of the class described compris-. ing a hanger, I mountedatthe upper end of the hanger,

a grooved supporting wheel Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

a cross bar at the lower end of the hanger and having fixed jaws. and also having downwardly extending arms opposite said fixed aws, clamp1ng screws mounted 1n 7 threaded openings 1n saldarms and movable clamping jaws swivellyfconnectedto said screws and movable thereby toward and from the fixed jaws.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SARAH BERTHA LONG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for. five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, .D. G. 

